Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singing market is golden but unpredictable. Few European popular singers have successfully invaded it. Those who have usually accent their accents and bill themselves as Continental style. But last week a well-built English girl named Beryl Davis, with a purry voice and a nice sense of rhythm, started out to succeed the American way. She got off to a good start...
...more than in any full year before 1941. The U.S. Employment Service noted that employment was up to a new record of 58,300,000. It estimated that seasonal employment would boost the total to 59,300,000 by September. With prospects of industrial peace ahead, the stock market kept on advancing. The Dow-Jones industrial averages were up 4.43 points...
...duck farmers last week were half-wishing the Emperor had kept his ducks. Their feed costs were the highest ever, but the price of ducks had dropped 13% in a month. Now, at the peak of their season, Long Islanders are shipping some 200,000 ducks a week to market. But wholesale prices have fallen to 26? a pound, 2½? below the old OPA ceiling...
...expanded into the New York market merely by handing a slice of Pepperidge bread to the head of a Manhattan grocery store. The manager said he hadn't tasted any bread like it since he was a boy. Within a short time he was ordering 1,200 loaves a week...
...supply her growing market Margaret Rudkin acquired a fleet of eight trucks, moved her plant from the stable into an empty service station in Norwalk...